Loubere, Paul; Mekik, Figen; Francois, Roger; Pichat, Sylvain (2004): Calcite accumulation in the eastern equatorial Pacific [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839228, Supplement to: Loubere, P et al. (2004): Export fluxes of calcite in the eastern equatorial Pacific from the Last Glacial Maximum to present. Paleoceanography, 19(2), PA2018, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003PA000986
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Abstract:
The eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) is an important center of biological productivity, generating significant organic carbon and calcite fluxes to the deep ocean. We reconstructed paleocalcite flux for the past 30,000 years in four cores collected beneath the equatorial upwelling and the South Equatorial Current (SEC) by measuring ex230Th-normalized calcite accumulation rates corrected for dissolution with a newly developed proxy for "fraction of calcite preserved". This method produced very similar results at the four sites and revealed that the export flux of calcite was 30-50% lower during the LGM compared to the Holocene. The internal consistency of these results supports our interpretation, which is also in agreement with emerging data indicating lower glacial productivity in the EEP, possibly as a result of lower nutrient supply from the southern ocean via the Equatorial Undercurrent. However, these findings contradict previous interpretations based on mass accumulation rates (MAR) of biogenic material in the sediment of the EEP, which have been taken as reflecting higher glacial productivity due to stronger wind-driven upwelling.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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Median Latitude: -0.773261 * Median Longitude: -98.673359 * South-bound Latitude: -3.094930 * West-bound Longitude: -110.519710 * North-bound Latitude: 0.183050 * East-bound Longitude: -86.483330
Date/Time Start: 1970-04-26T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1991-06-10T12:04:00
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- Loubere, P; Mekik, F; Francois, R et al. (2004): (Table 2) Calcite accumulation rates in the eastern equatorial Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839224
- Loubere, P; Mekik, F; Francois, R et al. (2014): (Table 3) Th230 excess content and calcite accumulation rates in the eastern equatorial Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839227